Written by James M. Tate / 11/25/2020 / No comments / bob newhart , comedy , dick van dyke , exploitation , jean stapleton , norman lear , parody , paul benedict , pippa scott , seventies , sixties , vincent gardenia
SERVING NORMAN LEAR'S 'COLD TURKEY' FOR THANKSGIVING
Dick Van Dyke preaches in Norman Lear's COLD TURKEY Year: 1971 Rating: **1/2 While Halloween and Christmas themes/names are easy to find...
Written by James M. Tate / 11/15/2020 / No comments / ben cross , dan curtis , franchise , horror , joanna going , joseph gordon-levitt , nineties , roy thinnes , TV , vampire
JOANNA GOING AND REBECCA STAAB IN A NEWER 'DARK SHADOWS'
Joanna Going in Dark Shadows Year: 1991 Rating: ***1/2 Dan Curtis turned his daytime soap DARK SHADOWS into a nighttime soap/miniseries that...
Written by James M. Tate / 11/14/2020 / No comments / anton diffring , body count , british , circus , donald pleasence , erika remberg , exploitation , horror , sixties , thriller , yvonne romain
ANTON DIFFRING WITH ERIKA REMBERG IN 'CIRCUS OF HORRORS'
title: Circus of Horrors Year: 1960 rating: **** Anton Diffring's England-exiled German plastic surgeon character Dr. Schuler is really ...
Written by James M. Tate / 11/10/2020 / No comments / bette davis , exploitation , haunted house , horror , seventies , sian barbara allen , ted bessell , tovah feldshuh , tv movie
SIAN BARBARA ALLEN IN THE TV-HORROR 'SCREAM, PRETTY PEGGY'
Year: 1973 Rates: ***1/2 Sian Barbara Allen is one of those artsy-looking actresses that could only derive from the 1970's: A round-face...
Written by James M. Tate / 11/09/2020 / No comments / adrienne barbeau , eighties , george buck flower , ghost ship , horror , james canning , jamie lee curtis , janet leigh , john carpenter , john houseman , nancy loomis , thriller , tom atkins
JOHN CARPENTER'S UNDERRATED GHOST STORY OF 'THE FOG'
The Fog autographed DVD Year: 1980 Depending how you look at it, John Carpenter's THE FOG is a zombie flick since the titular weather-pa...
Written by James M. Tate / 11/08/2020 / No comments / bert i. gordon , cult , exploitation , fifties , horror , john agar , john hoyt , june kenney , ken miller , science-fiction
JOHN AGAR AND JUNE KENNEY IN 'ATTACK OF THE PUPPET PEOPLE'
Attack of the Puppet People Year: 1958 Rates: **** A better-suited title for ATTACK OF THE PUPPET PEOPLE would be A CASE OF DOLLS, and liter...
Written by James M. Tate / 11/07/2020 / No comments / action , floyd crosby , gene nelson , jerry summers , joanna barnes , kent taylor , maury dexter , russ bender , western
KENT TAYLOR & GENE NELSON IN MAURY DEXTER'S 'THE PURPLE HILLS'
The Purple Hills Year: 1961 Rating: ***1/2 Another Maury Dexter Western following WALK TALL that Kent Taylor played a character that tries c...
Written by James M. Tate / 11/06/2020 / No comments / alan arkin , alex rocco , comedy , drama , exploitation , harry dean stanton , mackenzie phillips , road movie , sally kellerman , seventies
MACKENZIE PHILLIPS DRIVES 'RAFFERTY AND THE GOLD DUST TWINS'
Charles Martin Smith & Mack Phillips Year: 1975 Rates: ***1/2 Combine the personalities of Sally Kellerman and Mackenzie Phillips... one...
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Robyn Hilton enters into an eclectic exploitation comedy career in Wonder Women circa 1973 As mentioned a few posts ago, ROBYN HILTON, b...
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year: 1978 cast: Allen Garfield, Leif Garrett, Kathleen Lloyd, Tony Alva, Pam Kenneally rating: ***1/2 Although promoted as a Leif Garr...
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Kari Michaelsen in Saturday the 14th year: 1982 In LOVE AT FIRST BITE, a popular comedy that took the vampire genre by satire, Richard ...
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Mary-Louise Weller in NATIONAL LAMPOON'S ANIMAL HOUSE ANIMAL HOUSE, directed by John Landis and produced by Ivan Reitman, stars John Be...
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Cornelia Sharpe in BUSTING Year: 1974 Rating: **** Starring Elliott Gould and Robert Blake as determined vice cops BUSTING hookers, makin...
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Robyn Hilton on STARSKY AND HUTCH Model/Actress ROBYN HILTON played Mel Brook's secretary in BLAZING SADDLES and turns up in an epis...
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Kerri Green and John Candy in SUMMER RENTAL Year: 1985 John Candy, in his first leading role, plays a burnt-out air traffic controller ...
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Robyn Hilton in Video Vixens the same year as Blazing Saddles: 1974 The Anthology of Comedic Parodies, already done in several Woody All...
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Elizabeth James and Tom Laughlin on equal ground YEAR: 1967 THE BORN LOSERS wasn't supposed to happen but thank God it did since BIL...
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RODDY MCDOWALL IN 'ESCAPE FROM THE PLANET OF THE APES'
Roddy McDowall in Escape from the Planet of the Apes Year: 1971 Rates: ***** The title ESCAPE FROM THE PLANET OF THE APES hardly fits the ac...